ptop basically reformats "infile" and outputs the result to "outfile". ituses a configuration file explained further below, and can generate a default configurationfile for you to edit. (not needed if you use the defaults)

Try to play with ptop and its configfile until you find the effect you desire. The configurability and possibilities of ptop are quite large compared to shareware source beautifier found on e.g. SIMTEL.

The writer of the program, Michael van Canneyt, who also helped out explaining the format of ptop.cfg.

Questions/corrections can be mailed to fpc-devel@vekoll.saturnus.vein.hu

Also thanks to the rest of the FPC development team.

The program is a modernized (OOP, Streams, Delphi extensions) version based on a program by Peter Grogono, who in turn based his program on a Pascal pretty-printer written by Ledgard, Hueras, and Singer. See SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 12, No. 7, July 1977, pages 101-105, and PP.DOC/HLP. This version of PP developed under Pascal/Z V4.0 or later. Very minor modifications for Turbo Pascal made by Willett Kempton March 1984 and Oct 84. Runs under 8-bit Turbo or 16-bit Turbo. Toad Hall tweak, rewrite for TP 5, 28 Nov 89